Anthropic announces new healthcare tools for Claude to compete with ChatGPT Health
Anthropic has launched new healthcare features for Claude that let users connect and interpret medical and fitness data.
Anthropic has unveiled a new set of healthcare tools for Claude.
The announcement positions Anthropic’s Claude as a personal health information hub, capable of helping users make sense of medical records, insurance paperwork and fitness data in one place.
The rollout comes just days after OpenAI launched ChatGPT Health, underlining how quickly AI heavyweights are moving into healthcare.
Claude’s new features allow users to share medical documents and connect data from platforms such as Apple Health, with the AI summarising and explaining information in plain language.
Anthropic has said the tools are designed to reduce the administrative and cognitive burden of navigating healthcare, rather than replacing clinicians.
Eric Kauderer-Abrams, Anthropic’s head of life sciences, said the goal is to make users feel less isolated when dealing with complex health systems.
He told NBC News: “You can integrate all of your personal information together with your medical records and your insurance records, and have Claude as the orchestrator.”
The consumer-facing health tools are rolling out in beta to Claude Pro and Max subscribers in the U.S., alongside new integrations with Apple Health and Android Health Connect.
Anthropic is also expanding its “Claude for Healthcare” and life sciences offerings for providers, including a HIPAA-ready infrastructure and tools designed to automate paperwork such as prior authorisation requests and insurance appeals.
As with ChatGPT Health, Anthropic is keen to stress guardrails, and the company has said health data shared with Claude is excluded from model training and memory, and users can revoke access at any time.
It also emphasises that Claude is not intended to diagnose or treat conditions, and that human professionals must remain in the loop for medical decisions.
